Dr. Hendrik Kraay
Positions
Professor
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 220-6410
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
M.A., History, University of Toronto, 1989
B.A., International Relations and History, University of Toronto, 1988
Research
Areas of Research
Funded by a 2015 SSHRC Insight Grant, this ongoing research examines the changes in pre-Lenten celebrations in nineteenth-century Brazil, including the repression of rowdy and “barbaric” entrudo and the emergence of “civilized” carnival. It focuses on both the forms of celebration and discourses about appropriate public comportment and representations of the nation. A monograph on these celebrations is in progress.
Funded by two SSHRC Standard Research Grants, this project focuses on the different ways in which nineteenth-century Brazilians of all classes in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador (Bahia) commemorated the country’s independence and debated the nature of the Brazilian state and membership in the nation. The results of this project include monographs published in 2013 (Day of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889) and 2019 (Bahia's Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824-1900) and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. A third monograph on the twentieth-century Dois de Julho festival (the commemoration of independence in the state of Bahia) is in progress.
This research focused on the social history of the armed forces in independence-era Brazil (the subject of Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s [2001], recruitment, and Brazil’s participation in the Paraguayan War (the subject I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, coedited in 2004 with Thomas L. Whigham). Nova História Militar do Brasil (coedited with Celso Castro and Vitor Izecksohn, 2004) was a pioneering work in the new military history of Brazil.
The primary focus of this research area has been the participation of free, freed, and enslaved black men in nineteenth-century Brazil’s armed forces, including the recruitment of enslaved men for service in the country’s nineteenth-century wars. Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics (edited, 1998) examined the interaction of culture and politics in Afro-Bahian history, while more recent work has focused on slave culture and the manumission of “white” slaves.
Through the analysis of civic rituals, popular royalism, Afro-Brazilian participation in Brazil’s independence movement, and rebellions, publications in this area demonstrate that the nineteenth-century Brazilian lower classes included numerous politically-active citizens. Their political engagement profoundly shaped the Brazilian imperial regime (1822-1889).
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| HTST 487 LEC 01 | Brazilian History since 1500 | Winter 2023 |
| HTST 647 SEM 01 01 | Topics in Latin American History | Winter 2022 |
Awards
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. 2022
- Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Fellowship and Inaugural Naomi Lacey Memorial Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities. 2018
- Distinguished Fellow Award, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 2018
- Internationalization Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2018
- Warren Dean Prize, Conference on Latin American History. 2014
- James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History. 2010
- Cavaleiro, Ordem de Rio Branco, President of the Republic of Brazil. 2004
- James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History. 1993
Publications
- Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil, 1822-1889. Hendrik Kraay; Celso T. Castilho; Teresa Cribelli (eds.). University of New Mexico Press. 304 pp. (2021)
- Bahia's Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824-1900. Hendrik Kraay. McGill-Queen's University Press. 416 pp. (2019)
- Muero con mi patria: Guerra, Estado y sociedad, Paraguay y la Triple Alianza. Hendrik Kraay; Thomas L. Whigham (eds.). Editorial Tiempo de Historia. 298 pp. (2017)
- Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889. Hendrik Kraay. Stanford University Press. 576 pp. (2013)
- Política racial, Estado e forças armadas na época da Independência: Bahia, 1790-1850. Hendrik Kraay. Hucitec. 417 pp. (2011)
- Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America. Hendrik Kraay (ed.). University of Calgary Press. 296 pp. (2007)
- I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870. Hendrik Kraay; Thomas L. Whigham (eds.). University of Nebraska Press. 257 pp. (2004)
- Nova história militar brasileira. Celso Castro, Vitor Izecksohn, Hendrik Kraay (eds.). FGV Editora. 459 pp. (2004)
- Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s. Hendrik Kraay. Stanford University Press. 376 pp. (2001)
- Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s. Hendrik Kraay (ed.). M.E. Sharpe. 208 pp. (1998)
In the News
- How Brazil's political unrest reached a violent crescendo months after a contentious election. CBC. (2023)
- A história do 7 de Setembro. Revista Tema Livre. (2022)
- A outra Independência: Dois de Julho na Bahia (interview). 8ou800, Sociedade de Estudos do Oitocentos. (2022)
- Nos tempos dos caboclos: as comemorações do Dois de Julho. Boca de Afofô. (2021)
- Do entrudo ao carnaval na Bahia oitocentista. Ciclo de Seminários Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade Federal da Bahia. (2020)
- As "classes de cor" na Independência brasileira. Revoltas no mundo atlântico: identidades, conflitos e protestos (do século XVIII ao início do século XIX), II Ciclo Internacional de Palestras Online. (2020)
- From Entrudo to Carnaval in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (First Annual Naomi Lacey Memorial Lecture). Calgary Institute for the Humanities. (2019)
- Useful Lessons from Venezuela's Crumbling Populist Economy. CBC. (2018)
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